At 8 o'clock in the evening, Ouyang Longxing brought Zhang Zuolin, Huang Wei and Chen Qing'an to the city on time. In addition to the six veterans sent by Chen Yang this time, there were Fang Zhongping and two other naturalized civilian cadres, one named Tian Qihe and the other named Liu Tongjiang, both of whom were in charge of naturalized civilian cadres in Jinzhou, and the other was Gao Jin's assistant Geng Jinyan, responsible for making meeting minutes.

After everyone arrived, Gao Jin said, "Everyone has arrived. It's so late, and it's still delaying everyone's rest time, so I won't talk nonsense. Although the situation in Jinzhou is not at risk, it is also very critical. Therefore, solving this bandit attack is the top priority in our current Jinzhou area. Therefore, we are recruiting everyone to discuss how to suppress this bandit. Director Fang, please introduce the current situation in Jinzhou first?"

Fang Zhongping said: "To be honest, the situation in Jinzhou is very bad now. Due to the attack by bandits and the capture of Guangning and Xingcheng counties, our prestige in Jinzhou has greatly reduced. Moreover, we only have troops stationed in the counties below, and no cadres are sent to stay in office. Only officials retained by the Qingting. Now these people have changed their minds."

Gao Jin raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "How did you say this?"

Fang Zhongping said: "On the 15th of this month, officials from various counties came to Jinzhou to report their work. At that time, Xingcheng and bandits had been captured by bandits, but none of the remaining personnel from the other four counties came."

Gao Jin said: "The situation was critical at that time, and bandits were rampant, so it was important to defend the city. Therefore, it was understandable that they did not come to Jinzhou to report on their work, and it did not mean that they had changed their minds."

Fang Zhongping said: "We thought so at that time, but Jinxi is close to Jinzhou and there are only people coming, so it is too unreasonable. Later we learned that the bandits occupied Guangning and Xingcheng had sent letters to other counties, not only asking for money and food, but also not allowing them to obey our orders anymore. Therefore, they did not come. Later, it was the troops of the regiment Zhang who came, and the bandits withdrew from Xingcheng County."

Huang Wei and Chen Qing'an lowered their heads because they were the commanders of the Jinzhou garrison regiment, but were defeated by the bandits' army. It can be said that they should bear the main responsibility for the current situation in Jinzhou. Although Ouyang Longxing and Gao Jin did not blame them, they were still very uneasy.

Tian Qihedao: "Not only are the officials who remained in these places, but I heard that there are many large households and group training in the places, and they have also received letters from bandits. They have also sent a lot of money and food to the bandits. This time the mayor came to Jinzhou. We sent the news three days ago, asking each county to send people to report on the work and greet the mayor casually, but none of them came. They only sent a document to take leave, saying that the bandits were rampant and they dared not leave their posts without permission. In fact, when the regiment Zhang's troops came, the bandits' activities had been restrained. Most of them were active in the north. Except for Yizhou, Jinxi, Suizhong, and Panshan were basically calmed down, but no one came, and they were obviously waiting and watching."

Gao Jin nodded, Guangning County was located in the north of Jinzhou Prefecture, and said, "I understand. No matter what they are, anyway, the few counties below have troops stationed, so I'm not afraid of how big a wave they can make."

At this time, Ouyang Longxing said: "What is the deployment situation in the following counties now?"

Huang Wei said: "We just took over Xingcheng County, so we stationed a battalion, Yizhou, Jinxi, Suizhong, and Panshan, and the rest of the troops were all in Jinzhou."

Ouyang Longxing said: "So, there is still a garrison regiment in Jinzhou?"

Huang Wei said: "The 1st Regiment has two battalions, but they were defeated after fighting with the bandits. A total of 316 people were reduced. The 2nd Regiment has one battalion, but it includes the original Guangning County defenders, with 187 people being reduced."

Zhang Zuolin said: "After our troops arrived in Jinzhou, they fought with the bandit army five times, four times in company-level and one time in battalion-level. They fought with the bandit cavalry, killing 189 bandit soldiers, including 12 cavalrymen, 37 prisoners, including 5 cavalrymen, and 3 war horses were seized. We sacrificed 32 people, injured 21 people, and now 10 people have recovered from injury. According to our interrogation of the prisoners, we have determined that the bandit cavalry is Mongolian, and the leaders are famous Mongolian bandits Taoke Taohu and Baiyin Dalai."

Ouyang Longxing nodded and looked at Gao Jin again, who immediately continued: "Do you have any good ideas for eliminating this bandit?"

Huang Wei said: "Commander-General and Mayor, I am not the prestige of a bandit, but I will destroy our own spirit. This bandit is indeed difficult to deal with. When I was in Shandong, I also participated in the bandit suppression, but the bandits we encountered this time were completely different from the bandits that were exterminated in Shandong."

Ouyang Longxing said: "You are talking about it, how can you tell me the difference?"

Huang Wei said: "First of all, when in Shandong, there were only a few hundred bandits, and at most more than a thousand, and the number of bandits in this group reached more than 3,000. Secondly, there were few guns from Shandong. A bandits had few guns. It was quite good to have 30% of them equipped with muskets. The quality of muskets was also different. Instant guns, single guns, and even old flintlock guns. This bandit army basically had a rifle, and most of them were made in Hanyang, and there were a few Mosinnagan 1894 rifles; secondly, when the bandits in Shandong had basically no rules in their wars, they just rushed around in a row.

If you encounter a slightly stronger resistance, you will be defeated immediately. However, this bandit army still has some rules in the battle. Although it cannot be compared with the People's Army, it is much worse than the garrison army, but it is obviously under some regular military training and is much stronger than ordinary bandits. In addition, this bandit army has a cavalry to cooperate in combat. This is also the difference between the bandits we encountered this time and the bandits we encountered when suppressing bandits in Shandong. Therefore, we cannot use the method of dealing with Shandong bandits to deal with this bandit army. If we talk about Shandong bandits, we can use 1 enemy 10, and when we deal with this bandit army, I think we can only use 1 enemy 3 at most."

While listening, Ouyang Longxing recorded in the notebook. After Huang Wei finished speaking, he said: "It's very good, so how can we deal with this bandit army? Is there any good way for everyone?"

The others were speechless. At this time, Zhang Zuolin said: "Commander-General, Mayor Gao, I think that I can only take advantage of this bandit army by wit, not forcefully."

Ouyang Longxing said: "So how can you learn from the wisdom? Do Captain Zhang have any good ideas?"

Zhang Zuolin said: "I don't have a good idea, but I have a suggestion, maybe it will work."

Ouyang Longxing said: "What suggestions are you going to say, you can think of a solution together."

Zhang Zuolin said: "To be honest, I have some friendship with Du Lisan, the leader of this bandit army. I am willing to persuade Du Lisan to surrender and recruit him. But this is fake, that is, to use the recruitment as a temptation. As long as Du Lisan believes, whether it is to surrender or negotiate, as long as he is alone or only brings a few people, we can take the opportunity to start and kill Du Lisan. As long as Du Lisan dies, the bandit army will be in trouble without a leader. Of course, I cannot guarantee whether this will be successful or not, but as long as the two are willing to give it a try, I should do my best to do it."

Ouyang Longxing and Gao Jin looked at each other and had some ridiculous feelings. Before they came to Jinzhou, they had made up for the history of the old time and space. They knew that in the old time and space, after Zhang Zuolin accepted the Qing court's visit to An, he used the visit to An as a temptation, and also invited Du Lisan's uncle Du Panlin as a lobbyist, but eventually lured Dong to death. Unexpectedly, in this time and space, he actually returned to this road.

Gao Jin thought for a while and said, "Captain Zhang, if you only take this bandit attack, your suggestion is very good. I think there is indeed a great chance of success, but I cannot use your suggestion, because since the establishment of East China **, we have been based on faith and righteousness, and will do what we say and make sure to win the trust of the people. Then we say that recruitment is a real recruitment. We must not use recruitment as a temptation to kill Du Lisan, which will damage the credit of **. This is absolutely not possible."

Zhang Zuolin was quite unhappy because Gao Jin's words seemed to say that he was using a fraud, but his face was not revealed, and he said, "Yes, yes, Mayor Gao said yes."

However, Gao Jin was also a smart person. He immediately saw that Zhang Zuolin was displeased, and smiled and said, "Captain Zhang, you don't have to be too careful. I don't mean to blame you. It's great that you can make such a suggestion. It's just that your suggestion is only considered from a purely military perspective. When we adopt it, we need to consider it from a comprehensive perspective. It is politics that determines military, but not military determines politics. But if you have any ideas in the future, you can boldly put it forward without any scruples."

Although he has been in the East China for more than half a year and Zhang Zuolin has also understood a lot of new words, but Gao Jin still understands what he said, but he understands that Gao Jin means that he does not blame him for this suggestion, but she does not accept it, so she feels a little more comfortable.

Ouyang Longxing said: "In fact, now the troops of the regiment Zhang, plus the troops of the battalion we brought, are more than enough to defeat this bandit army, even if the Mongolian cavalry is included, it is more than enough, but this will only lead the bandit army to take the initiative to attack and fight us."

Huang Wei said: "This is not easy. Now the bandits retreat to Buxin and Guangning. It is obvious that they dare not fight head-on with our army. Is there any way to lure them out?"

Zhang Zuolin also said: "Du Lisan is cunning and has a great suspicion. He is afraid he will not lead his army to attack easily."

Gao Jin said: "I have a suggestion, which may not be feasible, but you can discuss it."

Everyone's eyes immediately focused on Gao Jin, and Zhang Zuolin was still thinking in his heart that he didn't know what this woman would have.
Chapter completed!